Health and Social Justice

Book Detail
Edition: 1
Release: 2010-02-28
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN/ASIN: 019955997X
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB

Health and Social Justice pdf
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Societies make decisions and take actions that profoundly impact the distribution of health. Why and how should collective choices be made, and policies implemented, to address health inequalities under conditions of resource scarcity? How should societies conceptualize and measure health disparities, and determine whether they've been adequately addressed? Who is responsible for various aspects of this important social problem? In Health and Social Justice, Jennifer Prah Ruger elucidates principles to guide these decisions, the evidence that should inform them, and the policies necessary to build equitable and efficient health systems world-wide. This book weaves together original insights and disparate constructs to produce a foundational new theory, the health capability paradigm.

Ruger's theory takes the ongoing debates about the theoretical underpinnings of national health disparities and systems in striking new directions. It shows the limitations of existing approaches (u Download Health and Social Justice for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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